Language shapes power and words like restitution, unlike repatriation, speak directly to justice when it comes to returning cultural heritage.
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Barak was an Aboriginal leader who witnessed the signing of the controversial 1835 Batman Treaty. He made many works during his life, but many are unaccounted for.
A recent repatriation from Australia to Cambodia shows how this process can reinforce oppressive powers, and further marginalize the historically oppressed.
The film restores the agency of the objects at the heart of the Dahomey restitution case by transforming them into a living culture.
Repatriation of looted African art is no longer a marginalised topic, but reaps few rewards.
The British Museum is celebrating recovered items in its new exhibition, but it continues to refuse to return historically looted items in its own collection to countries of origin.
The elephant in the room is the existing legal framework, forged in period of decolonisation and diminishing western influence, that forbids the repatriation of antiquities.
From ill-thought renovation schemes to the latest row over the repatriation of the Parthenon marbles, this is not the first time the British Museum reckons with a custodianship crisis.
The return of an important monument to Mexico puts a spotlight on a culture whose influence is still felt in the Americas today.
An international legal expert explains why the Greeks are right to be wary of the British Museum’s offer to loan them the Parthenon marbles.
The British Museum appears close to a decision on returning the Elgin marbles – here’s how it might navigate the legal challenges.
Art stolen from African kingdoms is a knowledge system plundered by colonialists, who must take historical responsibility.
Items on display at the Eastern Southland Gallery in New Zealand’s South Island open a window on the complex world of art repatriation.
After years of pressure, western countries are finally returning the Benin Bronzes to Nigeria. What's next?
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Research Associate Professor (tenured), French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas
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Senior Professor of History, University of the Western Cape
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Professor in Biological Anthropology, Division of Clinical Anatomy and Biological Anthropology, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Taxation and Commercial Law, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Researcher, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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Reader in Law, Univeristy of Manchester, University of Manchester
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Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside
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Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for Hellenic Studies, King’s College London/ Lecturer in Modern History, City St George's, University of London
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Humanities, Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study, University of Johannesburg
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Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Sarah Parker Remond Centre, Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL
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Anthropologist and Curator of Living Cultures at Manchester Museum, University of Manchester
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Associate Professor of Comparative and International Education, University of Canberra
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Indigneous Knowledge Holder, Indigenous Knowledge
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Indigenous Knowledge Holder, Indigenous Knowledge
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Indigenous Knowledge Holder, Indigenous Knowledge